Word: usual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next week the total number of men active in Council projects should top 50, and before Weld's term expires he expects to see an army of over 150 busy digging into the heavy agenda. These will not be "the usual kind who 'go out' for things but will be drawn from those who have top ability." It is selling the Council to apathetic Jawn and then "making him feel the necessity of some particular isolated problem" that Weld has set for his task...
...with divorces, but, after struggling with the matter for a few years, they take a house in England until he is called forth to Trafalgar and his death. While a few of the love-seenes suffer somewhat from Miss Leigh's overenthusiasm, Olivier rescues most of them with his usual fine performance...
...biggest name on the Texas campus. Finally, a way was found. For years, Dobie had taken leave without pay during the fall term to write, and to avoid the hay-fever season. This year, when he applied for leave as usual, Painter refused it, said he must stay on the job. No, said Dobie: hay fever "devastated" him. President Painter thereupon issued a statement: "By this action, Dobie's connection with the university has terminated...
Some northern California fishermen have already gone south to San Pedro, where the catch last season was bigger than usual. Many more were prompted to follow by reports this week from San Pedro, where the first day's catch was the second highest on record. But the canners of northern California, with some $60,000,000 tied up in factory equipment, are much worse off. A few have turned to vegetable canning. But most of them are just waiting despondently for an end to nature's perverse magic...
Plans of the two top divisions of the Red Army's General Staff (Bureau No. 1, administration and organization, and No. 2, mobilization) anticipate a Russian force of 120 divisions by Jan. 1, 1948, plus 30 special divisions of twice the usual size located in Russian occupation areas. That will give the Soviet Union a peacetime army...